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Our Artificial Future: What Generative AI Means for Law and Society

Our Artificial Future: What Generative AI Means for Law and Society


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The Generative AI revolution is driven by corporations demanding legal superpowers. If we allow it to continue unchecked, the implications will be profound. This urgent, critical book exposes the unprecedented push by trillion-dollar companies to build AI on billions of unauthorized human works and redefine fundamental areas of law, including copyright, contract, and free speech. Written by an industry insider who turned from AI champion to AI critic, this highly accessible work promotes AI literacy and provides essential tools to pierce the hype. Readers will learn how to assess AI's profound societal risks to democracy and autonomy and ensure that we are the architects of-and not bystanders in-our artificial future.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I. Understanding Generative Artificial Intelligence: 1. Overview; 2. Why GenAI is Made; 3. How GenAI is Made; 4. How GenAI is Measured; Part II. An Overview of Key Concepts: 5. Web Scraping; 6. The AI Race; 7. GenAIuflecting; 8. The Illusion of Democratization; 9. Automation Bias; 10. Anthropomorphizing; Part III. Legal: 11. An Introduction to Copyright Law; 12. Copyright Law and GenAI Exceptionalism; 13. An Introduction to the First Amendment; 14. The First Amendment and GenAI Exceptionalism; 15. Contract Law and Websites; 16. Contract Law and GenAI Exceptionalism; 17. Licensing for GenAI; 18. Tort Law: Negligence and Product Liability; 19. Property, Exclusion, and Trespass; Part IV. Societal Implications: 20. The Economics of the Internet; 21. Oligopolies; 22. Environmental Impact; 23. GenAI in Education; 24. Education and Democracy; Part V. Looking Further Ahead: 25. Human Autonomy; 26. Artificial General Intelligence; Part VI. What to Do About It: Chapter 27. Frameworks for Thinking About GenAI.

About the Author :
David Atkinson was a paratrooper (82nd Airborne Division) before earning a master's from Harvard and a JD from Georgetown Law. He has since worked with the Allen Institute for AI and as a lecturer on AI, Law, & Ethics at University of Texas, Austin. His articles on generative AI are published in multiple law journals.

Review :
'In a field crowded with overly complicated analogies and jargon, Our Artificial Future is smart, engaging, accessible, and sharply timed – offering the kind of clear-eyed critique of AI that only David Atkinson can deliver. It provides exactly the framework this moment demands.' J. B. Branch, AI Governance and Technology Policy Counsel, Public Citizen 'David Atkinson provides a brilliant critical review of generative AI and its effects that will answer your technical, social, and legal questions but is ultimately a call to action. Read it, and then act in your family, your workplace, your community, and your country to ensure that human values and skills are preserved.' Robert Brauneis, Michael J. McKeon Professor of Intellectual Property Law, The George Washington University Law School


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  • ISBN-13: 9781009719612
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
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  • Sub Title: What Generative AI Means for Law and Society
  • ISBN-10: 1009719610
  • Publisher Date: 20 Aug 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 338
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  • Weight: 503 gr


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